Francis Chan Quotes
When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
Quotes to Explore
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
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As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
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[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
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If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
